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8PECIAL COMMUNICATION
Marshall Lodge, No. 108 A F. & A. M.,
Work in first degree Tuesday, May 4,
7:30 p. m. John W. Wells, secretary
W. H. Steiner, W. M.
6IGNET CHAPTER. No. 88, R. A- M.
Special convocation Monday,
May
lor work In M. M. degree. L. S. Su
born, H. P., John W. Wells, Bee,
8TATED ASSEMBLY, King Solomon
Council No. 20, R. & S. M. Mondfiy
after the third Sunday. I. T. ForDea,
recorder George Gregory, T. M.
REGULAR CONCLAVE, St, Aldemar
Commandery No. SO, K. T„ Tues ay,
jlay 18, at 8 o'clock. Regular business.
M. S. McFarland, Rec., George Gregory,
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 67, O. E. S., Wednesday,
12. 8 p. m. Business. Anna
secretary Mary Black Collins.
FIRST FLOOR
MARSHALLTOWN CLUB
J. SIDNEY JOHNSON. Secretary.
•BCONO FLOOR
DR. R. C. MOLISON
Surgeon and Physician
Rooms 207 and 208. 'Phone 996.
Office hours, 10 to 12 a. m.
2
to 5 p. m.
Residence, 304 Park street
THIRD FLOOR
DRS. FRENCH & COBB
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Specialists
DR. R. R. HANSEN
Rooms 314-315
Office Hours: 11 to 12 2 to 4 and
7 to p. m.
Office 'phone 101: Home •phone S72
Physicians and Surgeons
Aooms 302 to 306. 'Phone 15 for the
following physicians and surgeons:
OR. M. U. CHESIRE
DR. NELSON MERRILL
DR. H. H. NICHOLS
DR. GEORGE M. JOHNSON
Tu.
F. Kellogg R. J. Andrews
DENTISTS
Booms 315 to 317. 'Phone 14
FOURTH FLOOR
DRS. UERLE & SCHMITZ
Specialists Eye, Ear,
Nose and Throat
GLASSES FITTED
Hours 9 to 12 a. m. 1 to 5 p. m.
Consulting oculists Iowa Soldiers'
Home. Oculists and auriats Iowa In
dustrial School for Boys.
DR. WM. F. HAMILTON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
406-8 Masonic Temple.
Special Attention to General
Surgery and X-Ray Work
Rooms 414-15 Masonic Temple
Office Hours, 1 to 4 p. m.
DR. RALPH E. KEYSER
DR. N. E. MIGHELL &
DR. G. E. HERMANCE
SURGEONS AND PHYSICIANS
Office Hours—10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 5
p. m., and 7 to 8 p. m.
Suite 11, Tremont Block.
MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA
Dr. Wilbert Shallenberger
766 Otinrw* BM.. CUCMO, SptdalM.
Chronic, Nervous
and Special Diseases
Ortr 90% of my patients come
from recommendation of those I
btre etimd. Conmultation FREE.
176th visit to Stoddart Hotel, Marshall
town, Saturday, May 29. 1915.
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O. Henry's Last Poem.
Found among his papers af'.er his
death.
Hard ye may be In the tumult
Red to your battle hilts
Blow give for blow in the foray,
Cunningly ride in the :ilts.
But when the roaring is ended
Tenderly, unbegulled—
Turn to a woman a woman's heart
And a child's to a child.
Test of the man If his worth be
In accord with the ultimate plan
That he be not to his marring.
Always and utterly man.
That he bring out of the tumult,
Fitter and undented,
To a woman the lieart of a woman—
To children the heart of a child.
Good when the bugles are ranting
It is to be iron and tire,
Good to be oak in the foray—
Ice to a guilty des're.
But, when the battle over
(Marvel and wonder the while)
Give to woman a voman's heart
And a child's to a child.
NARROWING DOWN.
The Register and Leader Is authority
for the statement that Kendall has no
intention of entering the race for the
governorship. From Washington comes
the assurance that Hughes will not
consider the nomination for the presi—
dency.
The list Is beginning to narrow.
Among the candidates for the gover
norship the leaders now are Cosson
and Allen. "With Kendall out they are
the leading candidates between whom
the larger following is divided. But
the question of further narrowing be
comes acute. How happy the state
could be with either were t'other dear
charmer away.
Elimination of Hughes boosts the
Cummins stock higher in Washington
and in states outside of Iowa. It seems
to be pretty definitely settled in Iowa
that if the senator wishes the delega
tion no real opposition will be offered
and Iowa will go solidly and sincerely
to the convention with a candidate. In
other states the Cummins candidacy
had taken on a serious aspect before
his home state enthused over the pro
position. Personal and factional
troubles have obscured Senator Cum
mins' availability at home while it was
better understood abroad. As matters
stand at the beginning of the forth
coming campaign Mr. Cummins is the
most talked of candidate before the
party.
But notice that it is the Cummins'
and the Hughes' and the Kendalls and
Cossons and Aliens who are being
spoken of seriously. Whatever the nar
rowing down It will not narrow beyond
the demand for a thoroughly progres
sive candidate in the state and in the
nation if the party is to be successful
in the coming campaigns.
THE MAN WITH A JOB.
The man without a job ought to make
an impression on the man with one.
Just at present this man without a job
is rather Impressive. He comes along
hunting one and he wants it bad. He
comes to the newspaper offices and the
employment agencies, he asks at the
doors and besieges the factories and
other places where men are employed
in numbers. Not that work in this sec
tion of Iowa isn't plenty. It is. But
the man without a job is plentier. He
comes from other sections seeking
work. And there are lots of him.
Mind this man out of a job isn't a
tramp in the sense we have given the
word. A tramp Is a non-worker. He
doesn't want a job. Set him aside.
He's the mendicant who comes to the
back door with the certain indications
of his idle profession upon him and
leaves a mark to guide the next mem
ber of his fraternity. The man out of
a job is different. He wants work to
pay for lodging and meals and overalls
and such necessities. Sometimes he's
not what he should be. He drinks or
has come failing that handicaps him.
But his need is as great when it comes
and he finds it hard to supply.
The man with a good job should be
a happy man. He should be glad he
has it and hope for a better one, but
only the foolish imagine that the way
to a better job is to despise the one in
hand. The man or boy who does his
work well and takes it and his connec
tlon seriously has hundreds of friends
and boosters. He gets the better 1ob
because it belongs to him. But he
hangs on to the one he has until the
better job flourishes its pay check in
his face. He is never the man without
a job.
The president of a big Insurance
company, writing to the agents told
them "you are the company. Its suc
cess depends almost entirely on you."
That's really what a job means. It
means being part of the company
whatever the company may be. It
means that dependence is placed on the
man with a job and that if he is to have
a better one or hold that one against
other men he must be responsible and
accept his responsibility.
The roads are full of men without a
job, men from the east and from the
west all centering on Iowa where pros
perity prevails as nowhere else. And
everyone of them is a lesson and a
warning and a promise to the man with
a job.
If you bars a good Job nurse it. SM»y
by it. Make It love you.
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•vv.. TO -BILL" ANB "BOB."
A circular which Is being received In
the newspaper offices draws the deadly
parallel between Billy Sunday's ser
mons and R. O. Ingersoll's lectures. The
asesrtlon is that Billy has used without
credit extracts from the eloquence of
Bob and the quotations in parallel
columns if they have been honestly
compiled would corroborate the charge.
The circular is open to suspicion by
lack of any mark of authorship or
ownership. It is probably issued by
some brewers' ^association or other in
terest which suffers from the Sunday
movement.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil re
ferring to the circular says:
"So far as the subject of the circular
Is concerned, all that need be said is
that if Sunday is using some of the
beautiful and brilliantly eloquent
periods of Colonel Ingersoll in his work
he is making a deuced sight better use
of the language than the author him
self made."
Without doubt Billy—if he Is using
Bob's beautiful and brilliantly eloquent
periods—is, as the Bluffs paper says,
making a better use of them than their
author, but enough has not been said
when so much is granted. Bald plagiar
ism is not to be excused, if it has been
practiced, by the use the plagiarist
makes of his intellectual plunder. The
same theory would excuse the theft of
a horse from a brewery to be used by
a colporteur.
However so eminent a man as Benja
min Franklin humorously excused
plagiarism by a preacher who had been
discovered preaching verbatim from a
volume of Tillotson's sermons. Mr.
Franklin had enjoyed the sermonizing
greatly without knowledge of whence
the pulpiteer gained his spoil. When
he was dismissed from his pulpit for
the offense Franklin objected on the
theory that he preferred to hear a good
sermon whoever made it or however it
was obtained rather than a poor one
complete in a dull originality. And
that is the best excuse for plagiarism
offered up to date.
That excuse, however, does not fit
the case under discussion. Mr. Sunday
has eloquence of his own and plentiful
power to run at the head under his own
steam. Perhaps the accusation brought
Is one of the underhand methods of the
liquor interests to discredit Mr. Sunday
and his movement, this newspaper con
fesses that it has not taken the trouble
to investigate it, but if Bill is borrow
ing from Bob he had best see to the
quotation marks.
Topics of the Times
With England spending $10,009,000
a day on the war it is evident that it
comes to a cut on the groceries or the
drink. But the house of commons
seems willing to get along on less
groceries.
Somebody ought to paraphrase to fit
the Japs that old gag about the men
going to Peking. They seem actually
to be on the way.
The Vinton Eagle speaking of the
Florida law which disfranchises the
man who refuses to pay his poll tax
says such a law would raise a howl
in Iowa. But would it? A man who
refuses to pay poll usually doesn't care
whether he votes or not.
Another evidence that Des Moines
has passed the 100,000 mark is a big
gang riot in broad daylight in a main
street which the police seem to have
been more or less unable to cope with.
It suggests that Des Moines officials
should return that visit of Joliet city
authorities who came to find out how
Des Moines does and learn something
of how things are done at Joliet.
The influence of the Lincoln High
way has resulted in definite road Im
provement projects being instituted
during the last two years. There is
the Washington highway, which is to
run from Washington, N. H., to Wash
ington, D. C.: the Dixie, highway, from
Chicago to Miami, Fia.: the Rockford
highway, from Rockford to Spring
field, 111 the Lee highway, from Wash
ington, D. C. to Jacksonville, Fla, the
Thomas Jefferson highway, which is to
traverse six or seven of the southern
states—in all some 6.000 miles of per
manent road strongly advocated and
advanced by the efforts of definite or
ganizations, and every mile of which
will unquestionably ultimately be
built.
Nate Kendall is another of the pos
sible candidates for governor whose
political sagacity tells him that too
many dry candidates in the primary
will contribute mostly to the nomina
tion of a wet. Nate has decided not
to run. He and Senator Francis must
have compared notes.
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.
"Senator Cummins
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press ought to at least make him feel
good," says the Roire Arrow.
The Sioux City Journal suggests
that "A nice little run of prosperlcy
would mean hard times for the hard
times issue In politics."
The Centerville loweglan congratu
lates the county that "the day of tha
Incompetent in office, also the man
who will not perform the dul.'es of his
office without being prodded by the
public, is happily passing away."
"Why were the old corporation
crowd so busy at Des Moines during
the closing days of the legislature
working hard in an effort to defeat
an appropriation for Iowa to secure
the true valuation of the railroads of
the state?" inquiries the Hampton
Chronicle.
"A battle royal wl!) be a tame prop
ortion compared wlt'n the affray that
Is to be fought, over the body of
demon rum In the democratic party of
Iowa," according to the Odebolt
Chronicle.
Looker-On In Iowa
Beaman, May 4.—The recent trip of
Dr. Somers, of Grlnnell, in Aviator Rob
inson's monoplane to visit a patient in
the country eleven miles from town,
the account of it In the T.-R. has
caused much comment. Doctors in all
these towns are told an aeroplane must
be part of their outfit—automobiles are
too slow and useless in mud times, while
Robinson can take Somers out twenty
miles in the country in twenty minutes,
night od day, good r-jads or bad roads.
In case of accidents every minute
counts. Of course much of this talk is
half in joke but the other half is In
dead earnest. Nearly every reader can
remember the.same kind of talk when
the automobile was first used by the
doctors.
And to illustrate this same idea, to
show how little the public is prepared
for the new. the unusual, what hap
paned in this town a few years ago is
in the same line. Mr. G. W. Bury at
that time In charge of the telephone of
fice, told the writer of his experience
In telephoning to a man in the country
after the wires were broken and many
poles were down-as the result cf a big
snow storm. Mr. Bury knew he had
taiked with the man in the country,
was positive the
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xuwa. i» uems
much mentioned as a possible republi
can candidate for president nest year.
It Is believed, with Senator Borah of
Idaho out of the running, the Iowa
senator would have the united support
of the west and them lddle west,"
says the Shelby County Republican.
"In order to leave no doubt as to his
affinity for such politicians and their
methods, Klihu Root, chairman of the
constitutional convention now In ses
sion in New York has appointed Boss
Barnes chairman of the committee on
legislature procedure," says the Sioux
City Tribune. 'Imagine what sort of
legislative procedure New York will
have under Its new constitution, with
Barnes prescribing it. It's a fine
chance the people will have at Al
bany."
The Traer Star-Clipper says "Har
ding will not have a ghost of a show
with the republicans because he Is
entirely too wet, and Clarkson will not
be considered by the democrats be
cause he is too dry."
"If Senator Allen neVer gfets Ally fur
ther la the governorship mat'pr, the
many complimentary mentions by the1 governor,
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were broken
and yet he talked with the man and
heard his replies. Well, tue Looker-On
published the story in this column. And
the result was many readers "had fun"
with this scribe. "Wonder you'd let
a man fill you up with si?ch a yarn."
"That telephone man got a good one on
you didn't he?" .And Mr. Bury had
trouble too. Letters were sent him,
asking where he got his liquor. Sugges
tions were made that he furnish every
newspaper man that came along with
more such stories, it was good stuff,
etc. Well, Mr. Bury has gone to an
other world. It Is a pity he is not here
to know in many places wireless tel
ephones are working. And the prob
abilities are, twenty-five years from
now, when in the T.-R. coiunms are
republished "Twenty-Five Tears Ago
of the yuongsters will
Today, some '""""V",viator suggestion worth passing along.
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Robinson's trip in 1915 created so much
talk.
Daily and weekly papers are Slving
tne
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iowa Newspapers
THE TRJCKINESS OF FAME.
[Waterloo Courier.]
The Marshall town physician who
went to see a patient in an aeroplane
made a flying trip.
QtUITE UCKELiY.
[Sioux City Journal.]
Perhaps Mr. Cosson, as a candidate
for governor, will appreciate the pub
licity more than the prominent citi
zens who own the buildings which are
subject to proceedings under, Mr.
son'% well known law.
he would rank among the moat avail
able men for governor.
GET BACK TO NATURE.
[Sioux City Tribune.]
Merely to bask and ripen is sometimes
The student's wiser business
To mix his blood with sunshine and to
take
The wild into his pulses. ''?•V
It Is housecleanlng time of year, the
time of year when the winter's ac
cumulation of odds and ends—trash—is
thrown out and destroyed, when soap
and water and paint and whitewash are
called into service to assist in the gen
eral work of cleaning up. Yards are
raked, cellars emptied and every one
gets ready to greet the days of long
sunshine'and open windows.
Nor is the human body and mind an
exception. It is the period of rejuven
ation and readjustment. If one is old
fashioned, it is the period of sassafras
tea, sulphur and "greens," the signal
for the lessening of the heavy meat
diet of the winter and fresh vegetables.
Tonics and blood purifiers are in vogue
to get the humours of the winter out
of the system.
Clubs and debating societies disband
schools adjourn, banks and business
houses go to shorter hours and Satur
day half holidays. Everybody wants to
get outdoors. It is the call, of nkture
to her children. It is the natural re
vulsion that comes to all men after a
period of too continual and too close
communion with their fallow men,
"hating the crowd where we gregari
ous men lead lonely lives." It was a
Greek philosopher whose Immortal wis
dom has come down thru the ages who
sent the schoolmaster a note asking
that the books be put away and the
classes dismissed in order that the boys
might get out in the country and learn
something.
Man needs to return to nature fre
quently if he would grow. We are an
Antaeanrace our strength comes from
mother earth and we must remain In
close communion with her simple, rest
ful forms If we would retain our vigor
and freshness. "Everything, from
kings to cabbages, needs a root In the
soil somewhere." Getting out In the
country is not a fad or a sentiment. It
is the resurrection and surge of the
virile, elemental qualities within us.
Obey the call.
A WORTH WHILE EXAMPLE.
[Council Bluffs Nonpareil.]
Something out of the ordinary in
landscape gardening is being done in
town, for two of our townspeople. The
residence property of Dr. Wells Dewell
and that of A. J. Coe are both In the
hands of a Council Bluffs landscapes
who is working out a blue print plan
made for each of the places named. In
each case the plans call for elaborate
work. Hare specimens of foliage and
flowering plants, hundreds of them,
the arrangement of which, as well as
the varieties very largely, have been
left to the man in charge who makes
the work a life study. This Is certain
ly a piece of work to be commended
on the part of Messrs. Dewell and Coe.
While they are doing it because they
want It, with home thought of first, yet
the town In a way will benefit by it
also, as a step in civic improvement.—
Woodbine Twiner.
MayorsP are ^roiSS and women of travelers who chance to pass that
Ko„j, varri, to
The above paragraph contains a
so much The work these two Woodbine citi
zens are doing will be "a thing ot
beauty and a Joy forever," not only for
make city community in Iowa is going to create
Now the writer, while not a civic betterment organization with a
decrying this agitation, has this to say: vision and an Influence of sufficient
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before.in twenty-nine years has force to impel the entire citizenship of
iowa-tht* referring to large and small the place to do for the town or city
towns—been so clean on the 1st of May Just what these men are doing for their
at the present time. An uncut lawn own premises.
as
Is th© exception.
™aunyartheawtater's'"accumulation island blue prints made for every resi
aflowed ot remain long after the gar- dence and every place of business as
lanted. Not to this year. "A they are being made now for two citl
change has come o'er the spirit of ouri-z«ns? The work of beautifying could
dreams Four
weeks-ago
the writer! not, of course, be done all one year,
slw a bank cashier it Chapin hard But if^ every resident began working
at work raking off the the whole side of
his lot clear to the railroad tracks. At
Ellsworth, the elevator man had sev
eral men cleaning up and hauling away
all of the rubbish around his office and
elevator. Even had a lawn mower in
commission and raking up the cut
grass. And in the towns the streets are
rounded up earlier and better than
usula. Painters *re at work every
where. More flower beds are laid out.
More flowering plants from the hot
«r« set out on the sides and in century and will wonder
front of private residences. And this
is not referring to the larger towns.,
This town of Beaman 's a model of a
cleaned up town. What farte*
The
rubbish piles) Why should not a complete survey
Back of the stores be made of the whole city of Woodbine
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cleaning up epidemic, not here but all,
over in Iowa is hard to tell, only this
every town the writer visits seems to
have on its Sunday clothes—speaking
In parables—and evidently Is going to
keep them clean. There's a big oppor
tunity for our railroad companies to
add to the general appearances of
depots and grounds. Section men can
run a lawn mower and
dePot
can take care of flower beds. The
writer has heard the name of a railroad
that spends a hundred thousand dollars
a vear along the line flowers and
the care of them around ^e depots.
The towns of Iowa have cleaned up
and are going to keep clean. Per
haps if the railroads would do the
same, the people might vote a 2%-cent
passenger rate. Nothing reaches the
heart like flowers.
Cos-
FIRST AID TO DANDELIONS.
[Cedar Rapids Republican.]
You may kill all the dandelions In
sight, but as long as you have a care
less neighbor his carelessness will
sow the seeds faster than you can
take out the plants. jg?
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THE PENALTY HE PAYS
[Carroll Herald.)
The Jefferson Bee says that Senator
Frank Jones,' of Vllllsca, 'Would make
a splendid candidate tor lieutenant
Were It not for his whlskeri
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toward a common ideal with a definite
plan before him the net result In five
years would be a city beautiful almost
beyond the dreams of old inhabitants.
These things are worth thinking
about. Some day they will come true.
And then people will look back with
sympathy and commiseration upon the
vagrant photographs of manure heaps
and piles of tin cans which cumbered
the nooks and crannies of most towns
In tl»e first decades of the twentieth
why these
things w«N ao hmar permitted to
the eye. dull the «ttue of beauty and
tarnish tha character Of people.
THB DATS'OF RB&L SPORT.
[Sioux City Journal.]
"Do hoys nowadays have as good
a time as we had when we were boys?"
Almost everyone baa asked the ques
tion of somebody else, it evidently
being the notion ot the average man
that the d«ys of real sport began
when he donned short trousers and
ended when he was graduated from the
high school,
"What has become of the old fash
ioned boy who used to play run-sheep
run and prisoner's base and mumble
ty-peg and leap,frog and duck-on-the
rock and pom-pom-pull-away? What
has become of the old fashioned boy
who used to inhabit a smoke ridden
old cave and chew licorice root and
smoke cornsilk cigarets? What has
become of the old fashioned boy who
used to get up at S a. m. on July 4?
What has become of the old fashioned
boy who ised to keep a pop-stand and
make 60 cents^ In real money on every
case of twenty-four bottles he could
wheedle a good natured public Into
buying from him? What has become
of the old fashioned boy who used to
captain a hose company with head
quarters In the woodshed and uniform
his men In red flannel shirts? What
has become of the old fashioned boy
who used to play circus and risk his
neck trying to turn somersaults Off the
back of the family horse? What has
become of the old fashioned boy who
used to do these and 1,041 other
stunts that made the average man's
boyhood days truly days of real sport?
Yet the old fashioned boy probably
had no better time than the new fash
ioned boy is having—he merely had
his good time in a little different way.
Styles change In sports as well as in
wearing apparel. Naturally enough,
some of the games that were In vogue
twenty-five years ago are unknown to
the present generation of tads. Even
grownups of today depend on diver
sions that were unknown to their an
cestors—automoblllng, golf and bridge
whist, for Instance, and yet most of
them would resent it If their gray
haired parents would suggest that life
holds less joy for the adults of 1*15
than it held for the adults of 1890.
At that, probably the old fashioned
boy who plays run-sheep-run and
duck-on-the-rock still is to be found
in the smaller towns—towns of the
same size as our modem city man
used to live in—the same city man
who sympathizes with the boys of
this generation on the assumption
that life for them is all a dull drab.
Boys get to know each other bet
ter in the small towns than they
do in the cities, and every corner
lot Is a public playground. In the
small towns playgrounds do not
have to be provided by the authorities.
However, boys will be boys—every
where and all the time—and a boy's
first business is to provide a good time
for himself. Incidentally, it Is a line
of business in which there are few
failures. So save your sympathy.
Nevertheless grownups of 1M0
probably will be commlseratingly ask
ing each other: "Do boys nowadays
have as good a time as we had when
we were boys"
When the Crewe Mobilize.
The crows are masters of mobilisa
tion. Such mobilizations have frequent-
themselves and their families, but for jy been investigated. Usually they
the whole community and thousands prove to be for the attack on some
enemy.
'sometime in the near future some
Thoreau speaks of the crows "burst
ing up above the woods where they
were perching, like the black fragments
of a powder mill Just exploded." When
they are gathered for war purposes
their cries will lead you to the spot
where they are fighting, and these
same bursts of black fragments above
the trees, usually following an especial
uproar of cawing, will direct you to
the uenter of the battle.
Walter King Stone, the illustrator,
and Charles Livingston Bull have told
me of a mobilization they once wit
nessed, when the crows gathered for
hours and the two observers were able
to penetrate the woods to the exact
spot beneath the feathered explosions.
There they found a great horned owl,
flying low in the trees, with a dead
crow In his talons. Whether this was
the original cause of the battle, or
whether be had grabbed the crow In
one of tie descents of the birds about
his head, they, of course, could not say.
He was evidently struggling to find a
dead tree where he could take refuge.
He was saved probably by the com
ing of night.
Crows have even been known to at-
"Season to Taste"
That'* the important thing in moat recipe*. When you can
do that well, you know much about cooking. Rcw igaaon
ing brings back the plates for a second helping. It gives food.
a taste that
reminds you of the things mother used to make.
There's a
knack in getting the flavor just right, of oottra^
but the
better
the apices, tho easier it is. That'#, why
Mjf
SPICES
are so popular with hundreds of housewives. They are
strong, pungent and pure. Always 10c a package at grocers..
Allspice, Cloves, Pepper, Paprika, .Ginger, Ciwumon,
Nutmegs, Mace, Celery Salt, Pickling Spice, Miutafd*
Sage, Poultry Seasoning and
TONE BROS., DesMoine»
Established 1873
in
Blmndert of th* Ftunotn OU Golden Cofftt
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tsck foxes, as Wlnslow Homer's
Ing Is the most famous withes#.
A farmer near my home, who
observed erowa tor many years
has the reputation of knowing mo
about them than anyone else In th4|
neighborhood, tells me that almost
ln"
variably in his experience the cause of
a'large mobilisation Is either a blg owl
or a hawk. The little screech owls ars
also attacked, hut by lesser numbers*
Be has also personally seen the crows
attack a fox, while It was crossing aa
open field, and once he watched
(look of nearly 100 crows worrying a
Skye terrier dog. which was ao,
thoroughly frightened that It was run
ning circles, I have seen orowa at
tack a cat also, but the cat always is
wis* enough to make for cover.—
Walter Prlchard Eaton la Harpw^a
Magastna.
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Private Bank Supervision.
One of the bills which should not
fail to reach the floor of the house id
Representative Thon's measure for ths
supervision of private banks. At prei*
ent the bill is asleep the committee
on banks. Chairman Shephard has
called his committee together, we atw
informed, just once early in the sea
slon, since when he seems to have lost
interest in Its possibilities of pubiio
usefulness or perhaps has been too
busy lriv other fields of useful en*
deavor.
1
Nevertheless It Is to be hoped.tha
present session will not pass without
the enactment of a law which shall
submit the operations of private bank
ing in this state to the same reasonable
safeguards as state and. national banks
are glad to accept. Private banks in
other states can afford to operate
under public supervision and so calL
the private banks of Illinois. If they
cannot, there is all the more reason
for establishing the supervision.
Public spirited private bankers favor
this reform. If the public could act
directly it would demand it. It is time
the legislature gave depositors this
needed protection.—Chicago Tribune, ri
NGW CHIEF
OF
NAVY
OPERATION* HAS
REAR ADMIRAL RANK
tf 4 V'-.
The new chief of naval operations
of the navy. Captain William Shep
herd Benson, is one of the senior cap
tains in the navy and in the ordinary
course of events would be promoted
to the grade of rear admiral in Novem
ber of this year. The new appoint
ment, however, under the law, carries
with It the rank of rear admiral and
with the assumption of his new office
Captain Benson takes that rank.
Captain Benson graduated from tho
naval academy in 1877, and during a
sea service since that time of twenty
two years has cruised practically all
over the world. On one cruise he
circumnavigated the entire coast of
Africa. In 1883 he was a membert of
the Greely relief expedition.
Plain to Behold.
First Baldy—rl felt that the nev^
musical comedy would be a success be-'
fore the curtain was up two minutes.
Second Baldy—I knew it would be a
success before the curtain was up two
feet.—Boston Transcript.
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